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Department of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Annual Review No. 71 | 2022 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Visit unc.history.edu to subscribe to our e-newsletter, The Department Historian
1 Greetings from the Chair’s Office GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR’S OFFICE A s historians, we know that human developments can be unpredictable, and that change can zig and zag in different directions. We’ve been reminded of these insights repeatedly during this 2021-2022 academic year. In this second year of the COVID pandemic, faculty, staff, and students continued to adapt to contingency and peril, while maintaining our mission of promoting excellent historical scholarship. This edition of the History Department’s Annual Review provides an overview and archive of our efforts over the past academic year. The many accomplishments of our department members and esteemed alumni are evidence of the continuing significance of the study of history, even—and in fact, especially—in challenging times. You can also keep up with our current news through our bi-annual newsletter, The Department Historian. The department extends its gratitude to Professor Eren Tasar for editing this Annual Review and to Sharon Anderson and her team of undergraduate assistants for putting it together. We also thank the many generous donors whose gifts sustain the intellectual and scholarly work of the department. Please keep us informed about your professional accomplishments so we can share them in future publications! Lisa Lindsay Chair, Department of History INSIDE THIS ISSUE The Department of History does not want to Faculty News .............................................................................. 2 lose track of you. If your email address should Department News ......................................................................13 Emeriti News ............................................................................ 17 change because you have retired or changed Alumni News ............................................................................ 20 your place of employment, please remember Graduate Student News ............................................................ 26 to notify the department’s staff of your new Graduate Program News .......................................................... 29 address. By doing so, you will be certain not Undergraduate Program Report ............................................... 37 to miss future editions of the Annual Review Southern Oral History Program ................................................ 40 as well as any messages and invitations. Ancient World Mapping Center ............................................... 42 Digital History Lab ................................................................... 44 In Memoriam ............................................................................ 46 Pictured on the Cover: Bell Tower Courtesy of Dustin Duong, UNC’22
2 Faculty News Faculty News 3 FACULTY CHAD BRYANT (CONTINUED) NEWS history. In Spring 2022, he taught a new course entitled “A History of Lies, Disinformation, and Conspiracy Theories” that will inform a future research project about disinformation campaigns in late nineteenth-century Europe. Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu CEMIL AYDIN completed a research article on “Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic and Pan- African Thought of the Long Nineteenth Century,” in Cambridge History of Rights, Vol: 4, ed. CLAUDE CLEGG began a four-year term as chair of the UNC Department of African, Jennifer Pitts and Dan Edelstein (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2022). He also African American, and Diaspora Studies in July 2021. His fourth book, The Black President: prepared “Lausanne Treaty in the Contested Narratives of the World Politics: From the Clash Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in of Civilization to Nationalism Theory?” The Forgotten Peace? The Lausanne Conference and October 2021. It has been featured in a number of venues including National Public Radio CEMIL AYDIN the New Middle East, 1922-23, Ed. Jonathan Conlin and Ozan Ozavci (forthcoming Gingko shows, the “Book Breaks” program of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Library, 2022) and “Ottoman Empire’s Engagement with European Law of Nations,” in The Cambridge History CLAUDE CLEGG several podcasts. Additionally, the book has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Times of International Law: Volume VIII: International Law in the Islamic World, ed. Umut Özsü and Intisar Rabb Literary Supplement, Salon, and other outlets. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). He published his reflections on “Rethinking Nationalism” in History Lab section of American History Review (Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2022, p. 341-346). Cemil Aydin PETER A. COCLANIS published the following works in 2021-2022: “The Occupation,” presented papers and public lectures in person or over zoom at Marmara University (Istanbul), Hong Kong Mekong Review 6 (May-June 2021): 18; “Twerking, Chicago Police and the Decline of Police Power,” The Spectator (US), June 14, 2021; (with Tilak K. Doshi) “Is the Shrinking Global University, Free University of Berlin, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at Geneva, Population Good News?” The Spectator (US), June 22, 2021; “Is It Fair to Compare Inner-City Center for Studies of Pluralist Societies in New Delhi, London School of Economics, Leeds University, Ankara Crime with the Global South?” The Spectator (US), July 2, 2021; “Singaporeans, You Think University, Oxford University, Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America, and the New England Regional World History Association Symposium. He has co-chaired Carolina Seminar on Transnational and PETER A. COCLANIS You’ve Got Problems? Think Again,” Singapore Straits Times, July 31, 2021, A22; “Nobel Prize a Shoo-In for Singaporean if Applied Economics Were the Focus,” Singapore Business Modern Global History and served in the editorial boards of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Modern Intellectual Times, October 14, 2021; “Did Slavery Make America Rich?” in Slavery or Freedom (New York: NAS, 2021), pp. History, and International Journal of Asian Studies. He participated in American Historical Association 2022 154-171; “A Brief History of Embarrassing Economic Forecasts,” The Spectator (US), October 16, 2021; “Still Annual Meeting as a program committee member. He has been serving as a series editor for Columbia University Stranded: The Southern Economy in 2021,” Triangle Business Journal, November 19-25, 2021, p. 43; “Property Press’ list on International and Global Studies. Email: caydin@email.unc.edu in Man,” Claremont Review of Books 22 (Winter 2021/2022): 65-68; (with David L. Carlton) “Resource Dearth: Challenges to Development in the American South,” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, published CHAD BRYANT published an urban history entitled Prague: Belonging and the Modern online February 16, 2022, forthcoming in print issue; “Enough with the Seventies Comparisons,” The Spectator City (Harvard University Press, 2021). He has spoken about the book at Flyleaf Books in (US), March 15, 2022; “Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to 1619,” The Chapel Hill, Cambridge University, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in Independent Review 26 (Spring 2022): 485-511. In addition, he published book reviews in the following scholarly London, the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and here at UNC-Chapel Hill. Literary Hub journals: Journal of American History (September 2021); Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Winter 2022); published an excerpt of the book, which has been reviewed in the Economist, the Times Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Winter 2021/22); New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gid Literary Supplement, and the Telegraph of India. Bryant has written about nationalism and (March 2022). The ongoing COVID crisis continued to constrain travel in 2021-2022, but Coclanis presented CHAD BRYANT the Russian invasion of Ukraine for an online publication, The New Fascism Syllabus. He has a paper (with David L. Carlton) in Philadelphia in November 2021 at the annual meeting of the Social Science spoken about Ukraine at teach-in organized by Nicole Harry, Alma Huselja, and Pasuth Thotheveensanuk and at History Association, and another paper on the origins of capitalism at a conference on that subject held at Ohio a workshop for K-12 teachers organized by the Center for European Studies. With co-authors Kateřina Čapkova University in Athens, Ohio in March 2022. In April 2022 he presented a co-authored paper (via zoom) at a and Diana Dumitru, he spoke about political show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia at an event organized by workshop for contributors to the three-volume Cambridge History of Technology project, which workshop was the Foundation for Civic Space and Public Policy in Warsaw, Poland. He commented on two panels at the annual held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Technology in Berlin. Closer to home, in December 2021 he Association for the Study of Eurasian and East European Studies conference. Bryant organized the Czech and also gave a talk on “Burma Today” to the Salisbury Travelers Club in Salisbury, NC. He is a member of the Slovak Studies Workshop, held at UNC-Chapel Hill in April 2022, which included keynote addresses by Pieter editorial boards of Enterprise and Society, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Advances in Agricultural Judson (European University Institute) and Zuzana Schrieberová (Multicultural Centre, Prague), respectively. Ethics (PRC), and serves on the editorial board of the History of Technology section of History Compass. He also He also organized visits to UNC-Chapel Hill by Diana Dumitru (Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.) co-edits (with Mark M. Smith) a book series on the American South for the Cambridge University Press. He is a and Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University), both of whom spoke on topics related to Central and Eastern European Distinguished Lecturer for the OAH, a Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and a member of the Board of
4 Faculty News Faculty News 5 PETER A. COCLANIS (CONTINUED) KAREN HAGEMANN continued during the academic year 2021-2022 to work with a Trustees of Kenan Asia, an NGO based in Bangkok, Thailand. He continues to serve as Director of UNC-Chapel team of graduate and undergraduate student on the Digital Humanities Project “GWonline Hill’s Global Research Institute. Email: coclanis@unc.edu Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600”, which was launched in April 2017 and has currently nearly 10,000 entries, over 250,000 visitors and more KATHLEEN DUVAL is finishing revisions on several projects, including a U.S. history than 287 followers of its Facebook page. GWonline is a collaboration of the UNC Chapel Hill textbook to be published by Norton and a book on Native North America from the eleventh KAREN HAGEMANN Department of History, the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, and UNC ITS Research through nineteenth centuries to be published by Random House. She gave her first in-person Computing. The related The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since talk in a long time at the Colonial Americas Workshop at Princeton as well as remote talks 1600 (Oxford University Press), which she co-edited with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose, is the Winner of for community college professors at the History Matters Conference hosted by San Jacinto the Society for Military History 2022 Distinguished Book Award for Reference. She continued her work on her KATHLEEN DUVAL College and for K-12 teachers through the New-York Historical Society. Her pre-recorded new monograph Forgotten Soldiers: Women, the Military and War in European History, 1600-2000. In addition, talk on “Frontiers and U.S. History” will introduce History teachers to the 2022-2023 National she started to work on a second book project titled Broken Progress: Men, Women, and the Transformation of History Day theme. DuVal continues to co-organize the Triangle Early American History Seminar, the Working the East and West German History Profession since 1945, for which she won a German Academic Exchange Group in Feminism and History, and the UNC American Indian and Indigenous Studies Colloquium. She serves Service (DAAD) short term research grant for the Summer 2022 to conduct 30 more interviews with East and on the Council of the Omohundro Institute of American History and Culture and the Editorial Boards of several West German historians born in the 1930 to 1960s. The first round of interviews she already had conducted journals. Watch for her book reviews in the Wall Street Journal. in the Summer of 2019. Furthermore, she was in 2021-2021 again the main organizer of the interdisciplinary North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series (NCGS), including a workshop titled German KEVIN W. FOGG has been elected president of the Southeast Conference of the Association Historians in North America after 1945: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarly Contributions on March 3-4, for Asian Studies for 2022. With colleagues in Linguistics and Geography, he has won a 2022. Its revised results will be published with Berghahn Books in a volume edited by Konrad H. Jarausch grant from the Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia for $900,000 over five years, to increase and Karen Hagemann. For more see the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. A first the level of teaching and research on Southeast Asia at UNC. He spoke virtually at three intergenerational discussion of the workshop’s topic took place during the Online roundtable “German Historians different conferences in Indonesia, and with Saipul Hamdi of the University of Mataram he in the United States: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarly Contributions,” which was part of the Forty-Fifth KEVIN W. FOGG has a forthcoming article, “The Indonesian Central Government in Local Conflict Resolution: Annual Conference of the German Studies Association Meeting from September 30 to October 30, 2021 in Lessons from the Reconciliation of Nahdlatul Wathan,” in Cornell’s journal Indonesia Indianapolis, which she organized. In addition, she was invited to participate in several online roundtables and (October 2022). lectures in the last academic year. Email: hagemann@unc.edu. ERIK GELLMAN was reelected to a second term as National Secretary of the Labor and KONRAD H. JARAUSCH published Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative (Princeton, Working-Class History Association, and he presented and commented in panels at its May 2021) during the last academic year. 2021 conference. His recent book, Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay (University of Chicago Press, 2020) won the Union League Club of Chicago’s (ULCC) book award. This award was especially significant because five distinguished scholars ERIK GELLMAN of Chicago history chose the winner. It provided a great excuse to travel to the city, where he KONRAD H. JARAUSCH accepted the award in the beautiful ULCC ballroom and Toussaint Losier, a historian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, interviewed him before an audience. Troublemakers was also a finalist for LAUREN JARVIS published an article in the Journal of Southern African Studies, entitled the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) book award, and he was invited to serve on the awards “A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church.” She panel at the AJHA’s annual conference. Gellman is currently co-authoring and editing a major collaborative also presented a paper based on new research about race and the history of humanitarianism publication: Organizing Agribusiness from Farm to Factory: A New Commodity and Labor History of America’s at the African Studies Association annual meeting and contributed to a roundtable discussion Most Diverse Union (under contract with UNC Press). In the Triangle Area, he has continued in his role as co- on transnational divine healing movements at the American Academy of Religion annual convener of the new Carolina Seminar on Labor and Working-Class History. He also serves as co-organizer for LAUREN JARVIS meeting. Over the past year, Jarvis enjoyed serving as a mentor for the Carolina Covenant the next Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) conference, which will take place September 9-11, 2022, Program, which provides support for first-generation students at UNC, as well as speaking at at UNC. Gellman is looking forward to hosting more than one hundred scholars for this SLSA gathering and several Carolina Public Humanities events. cordially invites all friends of the UNC History Department to attend. Email: egellman@unc.edu
6 Faculty News Faculty News 7 MICHELLE KING was on a research leave sponsored by a National Endowment for the LISA LINDSAY served as department chair and endeavored to remain active as a historian. Humanities Public Scholars Grant in Fall 2021, in support of her book project about Fu Pei- While attending to a wide range of administrative matters, she taught courses in African mei, Taiwan’s beloved postwar television cooking instructor and cookbook author. Her edited history and mentored Africanist graduate students. Together with colleague John Wood Sweet volume, Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), won the Association and UNC Ph.D alumnus Randy M. Browne, she published an article, “Rebecca’s Ordeal, for the Study of Food and Society’s best edited volume award in 2021. In April 2022, she co- from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic MICHELLE KING organized an international workshop on Chinese Food Futures, with Wendy Jia-chen Fu (Emory LISA LINDSAY Biography,” in the journal Slavery & Abolition. University) and Jakob Klein (SOAS University of London). The workshop was supported by Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant and included 17 contributors from institutions in 7 countries. Michelle also presented a paper on “Domestic Cookbooks and Female Culinary LOUISE MCREYNOLDS contributed a chapter on “Chekhov and Print Culture,” to Chekhov Authority in Twentieth-Century China” at the workshop. Over the course of the year, she was invited to speak in Context, ed. Yuri Corrigan (Cambridge University press, 2022). Finally released from at a workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin on “Anti-Asian Racism in the United States Through the Lens of COVID, she gave an invited talk about “Representing Ruins and the Imperial Imaginary” Food History” and was also invited to speak about her food-related research by the North Carolina Teaching Asia at New York University’s Jordan Center, April 2022, and on “Prehistorical Archeology and Network and the Charlotte Museum of History. the Making of ‘Race’ In Imperial Russia” at a symposium on “The Curious Case of Race in LOUISE MCREYNOLDS the Russian Empire (16-19cc)” at the University of Texas, February, 2022. In the profession, LLOYD KRAMER received a departmental research and study leave in the Fall semester. He she served on the Modern Europe Section of the American Historical Association, and on used this opportunity to work in Paris and to complete the manuscript for a forthcoming book, the committee to select the USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies of the Association for Slavic, East which is tentatively entitled Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys European, & Eurasian Studies. Email: louisem@ad.unc.edu Toward French and American Selfhood. In September he was honored to receive UNC’s Thomas Jefferson Award, which is presented annually by UNC Faculty to recognize “that DIRK MOSES wrote on President Biden’s Recognition of the Armenian Genocide for LLOYD KRAMER member of the academic community who through personal influence and performance of duty the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and on the question of German in teaching, writing, and scholarship has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas reparations for the Herero and Nama Genocide for E-International Relations. He gave Jefferson, whose complex legacy includes the values of democracy, public service, and the pursuit of knowledge.” a keynote paper at the Xinjiang Crisis conference hosted by the University of Newcastle. Kramer’s comments at the online presentation ceremony can be found at the UNC Faculty Governance website. Dirk also wrote a number of pieces in the German press about Holocaust memory, German In the Spring semester, he returned to his position as Director of Carolina Public Humanities (CPH), which colonialism, and multiculturalism. US policy and the Palestine question was the subject of two DIRK MOSES organizes humanities-centered public programs and partnerships with people outside the University—including more online publications. With Kornelia Kończal, he edited a special issue of the Journal of educators who teach in the public schools. His leadership of CPH events included a four-talk presentation in Genocide Research on “‘Patriotic History’ and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory.” Additionally, he gave many February for a weekend seminar on “The Age of Atlantic Revolutions;” and in March he chaired a session at the papers and podcast interviews on his new book, The Problems of Genocide. Full details at www.dirkmoses.com. annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charlotte—which was (happily) the first in-person meeting of the SFHS since 2019. Email: lkramer@email.unc.edu FRED NAIDEN co-edited the 494-page Wiley Companion to Greek Warfare, the first volume devoted exclusively to this subject. Besides co-authoring the “Introduction” with the other WAYNE LEE spent the year as the Colin S. Gray Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies at senior editor for the volume, Waldemar Heckel, he wrote two chapters, one on “Greek Military the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base. There he taught Organization” and the other on “Religion and Warfare.” He gave talks on Greek military history Majors and Lieutenant Colonels (mostly in the USAF) in courses on the theory of strategy and at the UNC Flager School of Business, at South Dakota State, site for an annual conference on the nature of irregular warfare. He also supervised three M.Phil. theses there while continuing Ancient Warfare, and at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Va., where he spoke on the FRED NAIDEN to supervise his graduate students at UNC. He also published “The Logistics of Grass: How grand strategy of the successors of Alexander the Great. Oxford University Press will publish WAYNE LEE Steppe Nomads Invented the Operational Level of War” in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal the proceedings of this conference as the first volume in a series on grand strategy. In the field of Greek law, he of Military History. He gave several book talks or lectures (including one for the National published an article, “Animals in Greek and Roman Criminal Law,” for Animals and the Law in Antiquity, an Museum of the Army) and published several short pieces in online fora as part of the publicity for The Other edited volume in the series, “Brown University Publications on Jewish Studies,” the outcome of a conference Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat. at Brown in 2018. Another publication in this field was “Aeschylus and the Law,” for the Wiley Companion to Aeschylus, co-edited by long-time Duke colleague Peter Burian. At “Nomos Basileus,” a conference that will
8 Faculty News Faculty News 9 FRED NAIDEN (CONTINUED) MORGAN PITELKA (CONTINUED) lead to a Festschrift for Greek law scholar Edward Harris, the recently retired Professor of Greek History at the Carolina Public Humanities “Humanities in Action” series. Morgan continues to serve as the coeditor of the Durham University in England, he spoke on “The ‘Laws of War’ Revisited.” His 2018 biography of Alexander Journal of Japanese Studies, and he will begin a term as chair of the Japan Foundation’s American Advisory the Great, Soldier, Priest, and God (Oxford), continued to be an “editor’s choice” for history at Amazon.com Committee. He also continues to serve as chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. besides becoming the subject of a talk at the UNC Friday Center. Email: mpitelka@unc.edu SUSAN PENNYBACKER spoke about the 90th anniversary of the “Scottsboro Boys” case DONALD REID published several articles this year, each of which had its origins in thinking on Pacifica Radio’s “Freedom Now!” program, broadcast from Los Angeles. She participated about how to answer questions raised in discussions in undergraduate classes. Two are on the in a panel on graduate students’ use of UK-based archives at the annual meeting of the North work of the resister, concentration camp survivor and Communist turned anti-Communist American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), in Atlanta. She spoke at the celebration writer Jorge Semprún: “Holocaust Denial, Le Vicaire, and the Absent Presence of Nadine of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Prof. Gareth Stedman Jones’ Outcast London: a Fresco and Paul Rassinier in Jorge Semprún’s La Montagne blanche,” French Cultural Studies study in the relationship between classes in Victorian society, hosted by the Mile End Institute SUSAN PENNYBACKER DONALD REID 33:2 (May 2022): 1-15; and “Resistance Nostalgia: Jorge Semprún and the Long 1968,” South of Queen Mary University of London, and its partners. She co-convened the Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Global Modern History, with Prof. Cemil Aydin and History Ph.D candidate, Zardas Shuk- Central Review 39:1 (Spring 2022): 64-81. One is on how Comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge man Lee, and joined the conveners group of the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar. Pennybacker was the war criminal, presented himself, and how he was presented by a filmmaker who lost his family to the Khmer recipient of a WN Reynolds Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave for the Fall term, 2021, and was Rouge and by an anthropologist whom Duch saved: “Creating Duch: The Projects of Duch, François Bizot and awarded a fellowship at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, for the Rithy Panh” in Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, eds., Everything Has a Soul. The Cinema of Rithy Panh (New Spring term, 2023. Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021), 131-143. Another article is on binge watching for a history class: “First as Tragedy, then as Television Series: Teaching the Presentation of History in A French Village,” Teaching History 46:1 (Spring 2021): 2-9. Email: dreid1@email.unc.edu MORGAN PITELKA published an essay, “The Life and Afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543- 1616),” in Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao, eds., The Tokugawa World (Routledge, 2021). His two recent books, Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century DANIEL SHERMAN held a Visiting Fellowship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth during Lent Term (Winter) 2022, concurrently with a Research and Study Assignment from Centuries: Correspondence from Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats, with UNC. He published an article, “Archéologie, musées et collections: questions de mise en MORGAN PITELKA Reiko Tanimura and Takashi Masuda (University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East scène [Archaeology, museums, and collections: Questions of staging],” in La Belle Époque Asian Studies, 2021), finally became available in print and ebook format. He gave invited des collectionneurs d’antiques en Europe, 1850-1914 (Hermann/Louvre Éditions, 2022). In lectures at the University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies, Rollins College, the “Medieval Cultural DANIEL SHERMAN November he gave an invited lecture on his current project on French archaeology in the early Heritage Around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now” conference at Binghamton twentieth century at Oberlin College; he presented another portion of this project in December University, “History of Sociability” conference at Grand Valley State University, the Annual Japan Studies in a Zoom meeting of the New York French History Group. At the annual meeting of the Society for French Association conference, and the “Interdisciplinary Edo” conference at the University of Arizona. He moderated a Historical Studies in Charlotte, N.C. in March he delivered a paper, “Performing Archaeology in the Provinces, discussion of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes for the Ackland Art Museum’s “Art & Lit” series. He ca. 1927” in a Roundtable on “Performing the Disciplines in Early Modern and Modern France,” which he co- took part in the roundtable “Japanese Tradition in the 21st Century” Organized by Dr. Michelle Liu Carriger and organized with Alice Conklin of Ohio State University. Email: dsherman@email.unc.edu. the Terasaki Center at UCLA. He taught a K-12 Teacher Development seminar through the USC China Center on ritual and material culture in Japanese history. Six additional public lectures from this year are available online as ANA M. SILVA CAMPO joined the History Department as an assistant professor in 2021. videos: “The Reception of Korean Ceramics in Japan (1537-1647),” a resource for the Autonomous University She published an article titled “Fragile Fortunes: Afro-descended Women, Property Seizures, of Barcelona’s online exhibition “Stories of Clay: Discovering Choson Korean Potters in Tokugawa Japan“; and the Remaking of Urban Cartagena” in the Colonial Latin American Review (30: 2, May “The Social Life of Raku Teabowls,” part of the Alfred University conference “Path of the Teabowl”; “Valuable 2021) and another piece on “Civil Lawsuits before the Court of the Inquisition. Judicial Vessels I: An Oribe Dish from Japan“ for the Ackland Art Museum exhibition “Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Privileges and Local Power in Cartagena de Indias (17th-18th Centuries)” in the Brazilian Dragon”; “Tea as Context: Treasuring Ceramics” for Joan B. Mirviss Japanese Fine Art; “The Ceramics of Mino: journal Varia História (37: 74, May-August 2021). She also completed an article 500 Years of Beauty and Innovation” for Japan House Los Angeles; and “Japan’s Global Relevance in 2022” for ANA M. SILVA CAMPO
10 Faculty News Faculty News 11 ANA M. SILVA CAMPO (CONTINUED) KATHERINE TURK won a Schwab Academic Excellence Award and a New Graduate Course on “Impunity for Acts of Peremptory Enslavement: James Madison, the U.S. Congress, and the Saint-Domingue Development Grant to create “Women, Gender and Sexuality: Historiography and Method.” Refugees,” co-authored with Andrew Walker, Jane Manners, Jean Hébrard, and Rebecca J. Scott (scheduled She published “The National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose” for the Teaching for publication in July 2022 in the William & Mary Quarterly). She received the 2021 Kimberly S. Hanger Labor’s Story feature of LABOR Online, as well as pieces in Slate, franknews, and American Article Prize for the best article in Latin American and Caribbean history for “Through the Gate of the Media National Biography. Turk delivered the annual women’s history month lecture at Wofford Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias” (Hispanic American KATHERINE TURK College in Spartanburg, South Carolina and led a Carolina Public Humanities Lunch with Historical Review 100: 3, August 2020). The prize is granted annually by the Latin American and Caribbean Friends and Strangers session which explored the life and career of feminist activist Mary Jean Section of the Southern Historical Association. She presented papers via Zoom at the 2021 Latin American Collins. Turk served as a faculty respondent for the Washington, D.C.-Area Labor and Working-Class History Studies Association (LASA) Congress, the Premodern Global Cities Interdisciplinary Working Group at Boston Seminar, the UNC Queer Theory Writers’ Group, and a “Community Conversations” session on Beehive: The College, the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, and the Triangle Early American History Seminar. She was 60’s Musical concurrent with its run at the Raleigh Little Theater. The Well interviewed and profiled Turk about also invited to give the Fall 2021 Faculty Lecture Series at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC in Climbing the Hill, her women’s history project co-created with undergraduate students and university librarians, September of 2021. She taught undergraduate courses on Latin America under colonial rule, Latin American legal for its March 2022 story “Walking Through Women’s History at Carolina.” For the Spring 2021 meeting of the history, women and gender in Latin America, and a First Year Seminar on early modern witchcraft and magic. Labor and Working Class History Association Annual Conference, Turk chaired a roundtable on “The Home as Email: anasilva@unc.edu an Essential Workplace” and served as a panelist on a roundtable titled “Public Workers on the Front Lines of Democratic Experience.” She is a member of the Board of Contributing Editors of Labor: Studies in Working- WILLIAM STURKEY published a book chapter titled, “The Freedom News: Spatial Class History; the faculty co-sponsor of the Triangle Workshop on Labor and Working-Class History; and a Considerations of Intellectual Liberation during the Civil Rights Movement” in Expanding member of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Committee of the American Historical Association. the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History (Northwestern University Press, 2021). He also Email: kturk@email.unc.edu authored a feature article in The Atlantic, titled “The Game is Changing for Historians of Black America,” and an op-ed in The Atlantic, titled “The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses.” BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE completed his term as Associate Chair of the History WILLIAM STURKEY During the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr. Sturkey received two major university awards: the Department during the 2021–2022 academic year, in addition to serving as the Director of Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award for outstanding engagement and service to the state of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships in UNC’s Honors College. He additionally served North Carolina and the Tanner Award for excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduate students. He was as a trustee of the Business History Conference and a member of its Investment Committee. also part of a team working through UNC Libraries that received a $400,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation Next year, he will be a fellow at UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, where he will to continue their work with “On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance. He participated in a number BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE complete his current book project on the culture and politics of owning your own business in of academic and public presentations including the Southern Historical Association and lectures delivered at the the United States since the 1970s. University of Southern Mississippi and Chowan University as well as the UNC School of Law and the Institute for Arts and Humanities. BRETT WHALEN completed his final year as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, a service position he enjoyed immensely. In the Fall semester 2021, he taught a new EREN TASAR published a volume of cutting edge essays on religion in Central Asia from First Year Seminar on “Race on the Middle Ages.” As part of that class, he participated in the 1200 to the present: From the Khan’s Oven: Studies on the History of Central Asian Religions fall IAAR-SLATE faculty learning group. Whalen is currently in the early stages of research in Honor of Devin DeWeese, coedited by Eren Tasar, Allen J. Frank, and Jeff Eden (Brill 2021). on a new book, Medieval Jesus: A Life, intended as a wide-ranging, public-facing study of He contributed a chapter to this volume, entitled “Atheist and Muslim: Islamic Dictionaries Jesus Christ’s cultural significance during the Middle Ages. In January 2022, he was invited BRETT WHALEN from the 1980s and 1990s.” He also had an article, “Pious Lives of Soviet Muslims,” appear in to speak on medieval representations of Jesus at the University of Maine, History Symposium Series. EREN TASAR Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia, ed. Chiara Formichi (Routledge, 2021). He presented a paper at a workshop organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Soviet and post- Soviet Islam: State of the Field and New Directions,” held virtually on December 15, 2021. Tasar published book reviews in Russian Review and continued to serve as an anonymous reviewer for a variety of jourals and presses.
12 Faculty Picnic A Welcome to New Faculty 13 Faculty Picnic DEPARTMENT NEWS A Welcome to New Faculty The department is delighted to welcome DR. ANA M. SILVA CAMPO to its faculty. Dr. Silva Campo became an assistant professor in 2021 after spending two years in Chapel Hill as a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow. Previously, she earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her research focuses on race, gender and religion in colonial Latin America. Dr. Silva Campo’s book manuscript, Travelers of the Half Moon Gate, examines the political economy of slavery in the context of Spanish imperialism in Cartagena de Indias, the main port for the trade in African captives in Spanish South America during the seventeenth century. Dr. Silva Campo is a digital historian and a public scholar: She has been involved in creating and online and museum exhibits about slavery in South America. She offers courses on legal history and gender in colonial Latin America, as well as witchcraft in the early modern world. The History Department’s Work-Studies Allison Juzaitis, Jade Williams, Joshua O’ Brien, Cameron Neale (left to right) & Sheridan Mentch (not pictured)
14 Honoring Our Retiree, Louise McReynolds Honoring Our Retiree, Louise McReynolds 15 DEPARTMENT NEWS LOUISE MCREYNOLDS (CONTINUED) failed to develop a liberal state. Inviting us inside the courtroom to explore how Russians practiced law and Honoring Our Retiree the rule-of-law that emerged in the country, she demonstrates how murder can provide an invaluable angle from which to reassess relationships across social groups, between the sexes, and across newly emerging public institutions and autocratic ones. LOUISE MCREYNOLDS Her mostly drafted fourth book project, “Excavating Empire: Russian Archeologists and the ‘Imperial Imaginary,’ In the Fall of 1975 after attending a start-of-the-academic year event thrown by the Russian 1804-1918,” explores the role that the emerging discipline of archeology played in Russia in brokering competing and East European Institute at Indiana University to welcome new students and faculty, I visions of “nationalism” and “imperialism.” In it, Louise demonstrates how the artifacts archaeologists was browsing in the stacks of the university library. Leaving me speechless, an incoming recovered, catalogued, and historicized informed intense, even furious, debates over social origins and human MA student sought me out to tell me that I would want to know her, because she was the behavior. As she convincingly hypothesizes, coming to terms with the fact that the country was multiethnic and best of the incoming students. Maybe the best ever. As she strutted off, a hand parted a multiconfessional, Russian practitioners of the new discipline of archeology imagined a space in which nation row of books in the adjacent aisle and a face popped up in the opening. “Hi, I’m Louise,” and empire “not only co-existed, but balanced each other effectively.” The issues she addresses in her chapters the person said. “I’m not the best one, but I’m the one you’re going to have fun with and underscore the significance of this conversation in determining how Russia as a country and Russians as a nation become friends with.” saw themselves. Constructing a new form of knowledge based in a material culture rather than in abstractions and in their professional ethos at a particular juncture in European and Russian history, the archeologists gave She was right on two counts: I did have, am having, and will have fun with Louise, and we became fast friends, service through their excavations, often unwittingly, to the government’s mission of normalizing state expansion best friends. But she was also wrong: she was the best one in the incoming cohort, and not only. And that’s what since the objects of their investigation could both confirm a shared past and draw attention to ethnic distinction. I want to talk about now. The research she conducted in Ukraine, in particular, makes it possible for her to explain the overlaps between During her illustrious career, Louise became internationally recognized as one of the most prominent, original, the national and the imperial in the discourse of Russian archeology as it emerged in the long nineteenth century. thought-provoking, and “field-shaping” historians of late Imperial Russia and its empire. She has authored three This brief overview of her big book projects makes clear why Louise is recognized as a giant in the field. major monographs (with a fourth on the way), 17 book chapters, and 16 articles; she has edited two volumes, But she’s more than that to me. And here I need to get personal, Louise. I’ve known you for 47 years—that’s translated another two, and given over 40 conference papers. She has held just about all the most prestigious longer than many of our junior colleagues have been on this earth. We overlapped for two years at IU; we were fellowships and grants. colleagues for four years at the University of Hawaii and for 17 years at UNC. You’re family. I’ve always Her scholarship is distinguished because she asks big questions, writes with flair and clarity, and places Russian felt incredibly fortunate, lucky, to have as my immediate colleague a best friend with complementary research developments into broader, comparative perspective. Cutting across the usual boundaries between social, cultural, interests, an equally strong passion for understanding Russia, and a shared admiration for Russian culture. We’ve and political history, her theoretically informed scholarly efforts have focused on charting and interpreting been a great team. We see eye-to-eye on the important things, appreciate our differences, respect each other, the cultural life of Russia’s burgeoning cities following the long overdue emancipation of the serfs in 1861. enjoy each other’s company, read each other’s half-baked drafts, and, importantly, like the same wines except for Viewing Imperial Russia from this vantage point has enabled her to poke holes in the historiographical frame the Sauvignon Blancs and Zins. There’s something else probably at play here, too. As you like to say, both of us that maintains that Russia had not yet become sufficiently industrialized for a middle class to assert an alternative have endured some challenging times, but both of us were born with the happy gene. political vision (to that of the Bolsheviks) based on representative democracy. Congratulations on your retirement, Louise! I have no doubt that you will experience the same “joy of retirement” For instance, her “tenure” book, The News Under Russia’s Old Regime, the first history of the urban press and that I have. What’s it like? For me, it’s like being on leave. It means doing what I have fun doing. Russia was once journalism profession in late Imperial Russia, fills an enormous gap in the historiography by opening Jurgen at play. Now, Louise, it’s your turn. Habermas’s public sphere in Russia. Her prize-winning second book, Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the By Donald Raleigh, Professor Emeritus End of the Tsarist Era shows how Russia’s popular culture forms diverged from and were similar to parallel developments in the West. Her interdisciplinary examination of leisure activities such as travel, wrestling, and nightclubs reveals that Russians were forging “modern” identities shaped by liberal ideals of individualism and a growing rift between public and private life. Her third book, funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Murder Most Russian, takes a brilliant revisionist approach in revisiting the vexing questions of why Russians
16 Honoring Our Retiree, Louise McReynolds Emeriti News 17 Louise McReynolds’ Retirement Celebration EMERITI NEWS WILLIAM FERRIS published an article, “B.B. Was King of the Blues,” American Heritage (2021: vol. 66, issue 3). Voices of Mississippi, a musical concert inspired by the box set of Ferris’s field recordings, photographs, and films, was performed on September 14, 2021, at the University of Mississippi Ford Center for the Performing Arts; on February 25-26, 2021, in the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on April 6, 2022, in Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and on April 8, 2022, at the Savannah WILLIAM FERRIS Music Festival. Ferris presented two of his documentary films Give My Poor Heart Ease and Two Black Churches and discussed them afterward with Lance Ledbetter, co-founder of Dust to Digital, at the Savannah Music Festival on April 9, 2022. Ferris gave Zoom presentations on his book I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 on May 28, 2021; for the Vatican Camp members of The Family Club, San Francisco, CA, July 8, 2021; for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Sunrise Rotary Club on October 9, 2021; for the Mississippi Book Festival panel on “Civil Rights” on October 12, 2021; and for the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival, Dyess, AR on October 15, 2021. Ferris’s book I Am A Man was reviewed in the Mississippi Clarion Ledger and the Washington Independent Review of Books. The Mid-American Arts alliance is circulating the I Am A Man traveling exhibition curated by Ferris that his book accompanies through January, 2027. Ferris gave a Zoom presentation during the exhibition’s first venue at the Irving Archives and Museum in Irving, TX, on February 10, 2022. The Exhibit is now on display at the Sand Springs Cultural & Historical Museum in Sand Springs, OK. Ferris was interviewed for the film The Blues Trail Revisited on June 10, 2021. David Hoffman interviewed Ferris and featured his documentary films in BB King 1975 Mississippi Delta Blues. The Start Of It. The Heart Of It. On March 25, 2022, Ferris received a proclamation and the keys to the City of Vicksburg from Mayor George Flaggs. That same day the Mississippi Humanities Council awarded Ferris their Cora Norman Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Public Humanities. On April 14, 2022, Ferris delivered the James P. Elder Lecture at Elon University on “Photography and Freedom: The Enduring Legacy of Civil Rights Photographs in the American South: 1960-1970.” Email: wferris@unc.edu. PETER FILENE has published a set of memoir essays, Personal Histories (Lulu Press). He has also organized and taught four courses in a series of “Senior Seminars” at Carol Woods retirement center, twice-yearly sessions of courses taught by residents for residents. Topics have ranged from “The 1920s” to “Life in the Universe,” “Robert Frost” and “DNA.” Thus far, 26 seminars taught by 21 residents to 322 students. THANK YOU, LOUISE! PETER FILENE JAQUELYN DOWD HALL spoke about her most recent book, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (Norton, 2020) to the Columbia, SC Area League of Women Voters Book Club and the Seminar on Modern Women at the University of Utah. She commented on a paper at the DC Area Labor and Working-Class History Seminar and spoke on a panel commemorating International Women’s Day at Carolina Meadows Retirement Community. She is serving as a consultant for the Benedict College Digital Archives Project. JAQUELYN DOWD HALL
18 Emeriti News Emeriti News 19 DICK KOHN continues to spread the gospel on civil-military relations in general and DONALD J. RALEIGH (CONTINUED) civilian control of the military in particular, while working slowly on a volume reprinting Virginia Carter Olmsted-McGraw, whose 2020 dissertation “Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, and some of his essays on the subject, some updated and some new to cover recent events, International Competition during Late Socialism, 1948-1982,” received the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Prize, for Routledge publishers. Once again he served as presidential counselor for the National awarded annually for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in Soviet or post-Soviet politics and history. In World War II Museum in New Orleans, accompanying Gerhard Weinberg to its first annual February 2022, he gave the keynote address at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies conference, twice meeting in three years. Twice in the least two years he lectured to a class at the University of postponed owing to Covid, “A Biographer’s Dilemmas: The Leonid Ilich Brezhnev I Might Never Know,” DICK KOHN Wisconsin—Madison on “How to think about Civil-Military Relations.” He also lectured to and a paper, “The Russian Revolution after 100 Years: Perspective on the Centenary.” At the meeting, he was the army’s staff college at Leavenworth on civil-military relations during the Afghanistan War, and to the Marine honored with the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Lifetime Achievement Award. In March, he gave a Corps staff college at Quantico on officer dissent. He talked to NC Democrats at their 4th congressional district talk at the University of Michigan as part of the celebration of the career of his Ann Arbor colleague Ronald G. annual convention for the third time in as many years. Among occasional conversations helping reporters cover Suny, “Ronald G. Suny’s Baku Commune.” Raleigh published a review article on Stalin: Passage to Revolution US civ-mil relations, Ukraine’s war with Russia, other military subjects, and the US pullout from Afghanistan, by Ronald Suny in the vol. 126, no. 3 (2021) issue of the American Historical Review. The Russian invasion of he was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on the latter for her TV show. He published, with Duke colleague Ukraine undermined his plans to conduct research in Moscow, prompting him to begin drafting his new book, a Peter D. Feaver, “Civil-Military Relations in the United States: What Senior Leaders Need to Know (and Usually biography of Leonid Ilich Brezhnev. Don’t),” Strategic Studies Quarterly, 15 (Summer 2021): 12-37. He and Feaver consulted with the chiefs of the USAF and US Space Force on how to prepare officers for civil-military interactions, and together have continued RICHARD TALBERT made it his priority to advance or complete ongoing projects to teach the subject to the National Defense University’s CAPSTONE course for all new active-duty US generals this year. His translation – with Brian Turner (Portland State University, OR) – Pliny the and admirals, and to the PINNACLE course for selected three-star officers. They’ve done that some six times Elder’s World: Natural History Books 2-6 proceeded through its production stages, and is annually for ten years and estimate that they’ve presented the unit on proper civ-mil norms and behaviors to forthcoming imminently from Cambridge University Press. His collection World and Hour support civilian control to some 2800 flag officers. in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays was submitted to Oxford University Press, and is in production. The major revision of his Atlas of Classical History – now co-edited with RICHARD TALBERT MICHAEL MCVAUGH contributed a critical edition of Constantine the African’s Latin Ancient World Mapping Center director Lindsay Holman and Benet Salway (University translation (Viaticum peregrinantis) of an Arabic medical text (with introductory essay) to College London, U.K.) – is all but ready at last for delivery to Routledge. Covid’s impact convinced Talbert that Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, and Michael McVaugh, Ibn al-Jazzar’s Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al- his searches for maps of Asia Minor/Turkey issued during the late 19th and early 20th centuries should finally ḥāḍir: Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary, Books I-II (Brill, be halted, and the work synthesized. This advance has now been achieved with help from the Mapping Center 2022), 657-738. He also published a prefatory introduction to L. Iannacci and A. Zuffrano, as always, and from Princeton University Library. It is due to host an exhibition (primarily virtual) created by Il dossier testamentario di Teodorico Borgognoni, frate domenicano, chirurgo, ippiatra e Talbert: Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923 (Ottoman, British, German, Greek, MICHAEL MCVAUGH vescovo: autobiografia di un uomo del Duecento (SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022), Italian, Russian material especially). One study by him focused on the unspoken impact of the two principal 3-10; “A Puzzle for Peter,” in A Secret Book for Peter Murray Jones, edited by L. Kassell and A. Thwaite (Kings cartographers featured, Heinrich Kiepert and his son Richard, is forthcoming in History of Classical Scholarship; College Cambridge, Dec. 2021), 191-4; and “Medieval Paths to Surgical Practice: The Example of Montpellier,” another on Richard’s definitive Karte von Kleinasien (1901-1916) – with particular attention to the explorations in Le Moyen Âge et les sciences, edited by D. Jacquart et A. Paravicini Bagliani (SISMEL/ Edizioni del Galluzzo, underpinning its cartography – is close to completion. Talbert accepted invitations to speak at the Pécs (Hungary) 2021), 431-50. In addition, he presented papers (by Zoom) to two international conferences: he spoke on “Etienne online conference of the Corpus Limitum Imperii Romani, and in person at the Naming the Natives: Indigenous Aldebaldi and Gui de Chauliac: Fellow Students at Montpellier?,” to the Colloque international sur “Gui de Peoples as Seen by the Rulers of the American Empire and the Roman Empire conference, Rice University, Chauliac et sa Chirurgia magna,” Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, on June 4, 2021; and he gave Houston, TX. His research professorship has been renewed for an additional year. For his involvement with the the conferència de clausura, entitled “The ‘Nachlässe’ of Arnau de Vilanova,” to the IV Trobada Internacional Ancient World Mapping Center – where he continues in charge – see its report. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu d’estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova, Barcelona, on November 4, 2021. GERHARD L. WEINBERG gave the keynote address at two international conferences DONALD J. RALEIGH was this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Contributions commemorating the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; one in to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award, presented by the Association for Israel and one in Estonia. He lectured repeatedly for Carolina Public Humanities and for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at its annual meeting in November 2021. At the the University of Toronto. He continues to be a member of the Archives Committee of the conference, he also participated in a featured roundtable, “The State and Future Prospects of German Studies Association and of the Presidential Counselors Committee of the National Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,” and applauded his final Ph.D. student, World War II Museum. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu GERHARD L. WEINBERG DONALD J. RALEIGH
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